Rallies against the release of a Christian woman from prison

Hundreds of members of the student wing of an Islamist party marched along the streets of Karachi on Thursday. They protested against the release order of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted in Pakistan after eight years on death row for blasphemy. The charge of blasphemy carries the death penalty in Pakistan. On Wednesday a landmark move by Pakistan's Supreme Court overturned the 2010 conviction against Asia Bibi for insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The radical Islamists mounted rallies for a second day and chanted slogans against Asia Bibi